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jerryscuba
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 Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:09 pm |
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I just wanted to give a quick status report of my R5E50 installation (not update). I used to run R5D1 on the same machine for a few months.
Compared to R5D1 I didn't have to monkey with the X...config scripts this time. R5E50 configured my PVR-350 without issues. The remote control also works without having to touch a script. I love the faster booting and the fact that the processor load on my machine has decreased dramatically when watching a recording. However, I would not expect that with every machine. I think on my R5D1 is had a misconfiguration somewhere.
I had/have a couple of issues though. When starting a recording the backend stopped right away again and told me the recording failed since my channel changing script was not able to access the serial device.
Quote: Could not open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied
I never had this issue with R5D1 at least I don't remember it. Well, to fix this I made the user mythtv the owner of /dev/ttyS0 and it worked but it didn't work after the next reboot so I added the chown command to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh now it works.
The next problem is that my DLink DWL-G520 wireless card with Atheros chip didn't work (it worked out of the box with R5D1). The driver didn't load and was nowhere to be found. Well, I decided to go the shortcut and load the XP driver with ndiswrapper, which worked fine. But when it came to
Code: modprobe nidiswrapper
modprobe could not find the module. Odd.
Well, then I started monkeying with ndiswrapper and hosed it completely last night. Then I decided it was enough and went to bed...
For now my myth-machine uses a WET111 network bridge to connect to the network but I'd like to make use of my faster card somehow. I guess Debian took the drivers for it out of the distribution since they are not available (for free) anymore. Thanks for that 
It looks like I have to download the kernel sources and start compiling...
[UPDATE] I found the madwifi drivers for my card...
All in all I (and even my wife) love KnoppMyth
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miker
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:23 pm |
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My install of R5E50 went smooth as well. I loved that I could just install tight-vnc onto my xp machine and could control my mythbox right away. I could also navigate the myth menus using my wireless joystick on a clean install. One problem I noticed was that I set up a few recordings, went to view upcoming recordings and found the page empty. Strange. I posted a few more things I liked and had trouble with but my post was deleted from the forum. very bad.
I went back to R5D1 and have had no troubles with it at all.
miker ________ IPAD GAMES
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jerryscuba
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:49 pm |
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I also had this issue with the recordings not showing/backend not coming up. But that was actually covered here http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13108
All I had to do was:
Code: reboot Then the recordings were there.
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# CASE: Acer AP8400 (Mini-tower)
# CPU: P3 733Mhz
# Motherboard: Asus CUV4X Rev. 1.03 Socket 370
# RAM: 384 MByte
# CD/DVD-RW: LG DVD/RW
# HDD: Seagate 320 GByte
# SOUNDCARD: On board
# TUNER CARD: PVR-350
# REMOTE CONTROL: Silver Haupauge
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tjc
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:36 pm |
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jerryscuba wrote: When starting a recording the backend stopped right away again and told me the recording failed since my channel changing script was not able to access the serial device. Quote: Could not open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied I never had this issue with R5D1 at least I don't remember it. Well, to fix this I made the user mythtv the owner of /dev/ttyS0 and it worked but it didn't work after the next reboot so I added the chown command to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh now it works. Cleaner solution is to add the mythtv user to the "dialout" group which normally owns that device. Cecil already knows about and has fixed this one.
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jerryscuba
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:24 am |
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Thanks tjc for that tip. However, I tried
Code: useradd -G dailout mythtv and got Quote: useradd: user mythtv exists then I tried for the heck of it Code: useradd -g dailout mythtv and got the same results.
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but the manual for useradd just confuses me...
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# CASE: Acer AP8400 (Mini-tower)
# CPU: P3 733Mhz
# Motherboard: Asus CUV4X Rev. 1.03 Socket 370
# RAM: 384 MByte
# CD/DVD-RW: LG DVD/RW
# HDD: Seagate 320 GByte
# SOUNDCARD: On board
# TUNER CARD: PVR-350
# REMOTE CONTROL: Silver Haupauge
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bruce_s01
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:36 pm |
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I think you need to use the -D option something like: Code: useradd -D -G dialout mythtv
I just took the easy way out and modified the entry in the /etc/group file.
Bruce S.
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spudgunman
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:18 am |
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miker wrote: My install of R5E50 went smooth as well. I loved that I could just install tight-vnc onto my xp machine and could control my mythbox right away. I could also navigate the myth menus using my wireless joystick on a clean install. One problem I noticed was that I set up a few recordings, went to view upcoming recordings and found the page empty. Strange. I posted a few more things I liked and had trouble with but my post was deleted from the forum. very bad.
I went back to R5D1 and have had no troubles with it at all.
miker
startlooking at your mysql install this is all stored in the database.
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tophee
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:24 am |
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Hi jerryscuba,
You said you found the madwifi drivers for your atheros card, on R5E50?
Can you post where. This is really the only issue that is holding me back from upgrading. I could never get my atheros card up with ndiswrapper.
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mlbuser
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:28 pm |
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Quote: Hi jerryscuba,
You said you found the madwifi drivers for your atheros card, on R5E50?
Can you post where. This is really the only issue that is holding me back from upgrading. I could never get my atheros card up with ndiswrapper.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13123&highlight=
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neutron68
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:27 pm |
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tjc wrote: jerryscuba wrote: I never had this issue with R5D1 at least I don't remember it. Well, to fix this I made the user mythtv the owner of /dev/ttyS0 and it worked but it didn't work after the next reboot so I added the chown command to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh now it works. Cleaner solution is to add the mythtv user to the "dialout" group which normally owns that device. Cecil already knows about and has fixed this one. Where/when did Cecil fix this? Is the fix in the R5E50 cd that we all downloaded? Or is the fix a downloadable patch, etc?
Hopeful,
Eric
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tjc
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:38 pm |
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neutron68 wrote: Where/when did Cecil fix this? Is the fix in the R5E50 cd that we all downloaded? Or is the fix a downloadable patch, etc?
Not available yet. I believe that the fixes, or links to them, have been posted in the R5E50 upgrade thread.
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tophee
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:12 am |
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Thanks for the info. I actually found that thread after I posted above.
Haven't been keeping up recently. Real life has been taking precedence. Thanks though.
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neutron68
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:00 am |
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I am searching for Cecil's message regarding this ownership fix. Is this it?
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13097
Thanks,
Eric
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tjc
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:02 am |
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I'm pretty sure you already did them. See my reply to you in the other thread.
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